Synonyms of harsh

1 Syllable

hard, drear, cruel, ter, bleak, sharp, rough, gaunt, sour, dour, tart, flat, strict, stern, grim

2 Syllables

crueler, hardshell, brassy, craggy, tangy, unsmooth, rugged, tactless, clashing, roiled, crabby, tangier, husky, squally, cracked, arduous, brassier, squallier, stinging, strictest, dourer, grainier, craggier, chuffy, gaunter, bitter, glottal, toothed, croupier, brutal, mumpish, jagged, glaring, hiemal, raspy, strident, crustier, chuffier, hang-tough, unshorn, roughest, breathier, wrinkly, bullhead, noisy, grueling, ruthless, brumal, biting, rusty, rougher, crusty, breathy, hoarser, sterner, rasping, wintrier, stringent, tarter, chapped, huskier, creaking, croaking, off-key, screeching, scathing, drastic, acerb, cruelest, coarse, grating, churlish, grimmer, snaggy, unkind, rigid, wintry, acrid, jarring, stricter, grimmest, heartless, hoarse, croupy, crabbier, gauntest, raucous, grainy, jangling, sternest, cragged

3 Syllables

hard-hearted, pitiless, stiff-necked, rigorous, unstirred, asperous, disturbing, unlevel, granular, guttural, disagreeing, uneven, unmilled, unworked, astringent, onerous, unpitying, relentless, tyrannic, hibernal, untactful, furrowed, truculent, austere, inclement, severest, nodular, severer, earsplitting, atonal, heightened, bitterest, dissonant, stertorous, absinthal, absinthian, terrific, severe, cold-hearted, icebox, merciless, ferine, bitterer, out-of-key, out-of-tune, stridulous, tuneless, hard-shelled, acerbic, exacting, harsh-sounding, ruffianly, absonant, sharp-tongued, vitriolic, morose, savage, acetous, contrarient, cross-grained, discordant, unshaven, intense

4 Syllables

coarse-grained, unpurified, unrelenting, aversive, inharmonic, unmatured, iron-fisted, short-tempered, overtaxing, vinegary, tyrannical, oppressive, remorseless, aculeate, unprocessed, unrepenting, singleminded, caterwauling, depressive, all-consuming, amaroidal, unsweetened, unflattering, obdurate, cacophonic, perversive, iron-handed, heavy-handed, ironfisted, ungenerous, weatherbeaten, cacophonous, unharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical

5 Syllables

particulate, inexorable, unsympathetic, denticulate, undiplomatic, incompatible, superincumbent, unpermissive, unsympathizing, authoritarian, uncomfortable, uncharitable

6 Syllables

uncompassionate, unconsiderate